A beating heart was something people take for granted.
They didn't question it.
They didn't feel lucky to be alive.
They didn't know death, or their own mortality.
They didn't understand the fact that anything that disrupts your body, its flow, could kill you.
They didn't understand that other people had the power to kill them, right at that very moment if they wanted.
It's not hard to pull a trigger.
Or shout out a spell.
Barty found this power-
This power of life and death-
Amusing.
He enjoyed playing with fate.
Or to be more specific,
Other people's fate.
He pulled their strings like they were a marionette, a toy to him that once he grew bored, he could throw away and cut off their strings without a second glance or a feeling of guilt.
Barty enjoyed this power.
But the one thing he enjoyed more, were the reactions of his victims when he told them.
When he explained that he had been playing with them all along, and without one feeling of remorse, tortured them with spells of his own creation.
He adored their screams as he severed one limb from another.
He lapped up the blood like a hound.
He disfigured them so it was nearly impossible without a blood sample to tell who they were.
And Barty Crouch loved it.
He loved the thrill of the kill.
But perhaps more than that, he loved the thrill of having someone who dared try to defy him. Someone who would coldly say 'Go away', who would shout and punch and kick and wouldn't be broken.
Maybe that's why he was so interested in Regulus Black.
The boy was broken by his own family.
He was jaded and his eyes were dull.
But when Barty spoke to him, his eyes lit up with a fire and defiance that Barty did not know he was capable of.
It was… arousing.
Barty couldn't wait to break the boy, to see if beg for death and of thing unmentionable.
And Barty would be oh so happy to comply.
Yes, I do not knovv vhy I vrote it this dark, I told you I vasn't going to make it dark like the last one but I guess I failed at that.
I hope you enjoyed this, Amber (Cheeky Slytherin Lass), I had a lot of fun vriting it, actually, and I have to admit that I am perhaps becoming more interested in this pairing.
I don't ovvn Harry Potter.